On 6/15/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 15 June 2006 04:28 pm, Harsh Busa wrote:
>
> frankly not everybody likes it but its true ... msoffice is an
> interesting nice application for wordprocessing and spreadsheets
Wait till it eats up your 30 page report. It's reall interesting how
30 pages can disappear wiyhout a trace.
> etc .... oo2 that i use rocks but still has a way to go ...
>
> if ms were to release ms office for linux and not charge me . i wud
> use it. there is nothing much that i could possibly do with code of
> ggl earth / msoffice or any application that i m only interested in
> using,
>
> anything wrong with this school of though ?
Plenty. You never know when u will require the source of the most
unlikely piece of software. Recently we had to muck around kview to
display pcx files with weird extensions. The client was screwed cause
the original writer of the ten yr old app had vanished. We could
ofcourse engage in the pointless excercise of rewriting code for a
long forgotten file format while the client suffered.
Moral of the story: closed source is BAD for u as a user or as a
programmer.
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dear list i apologize for starting this thread . it turning into yet
another leading nowhere discussion
regards
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